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Ezekiel 47:10

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Fishermen will stand by the shore; from En-gedi to En-eglaim they will spread their nets to catch fish of many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And it shall come to pass, that fishers shall stand by it: from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

KJV

And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En–gedi even unto En–eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

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This verse in Ezekiel 47

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Ephrem the Syrian

HYMNS ON THE NATIVITY 3 · Written before 373.

He was baptized and came up who draws all things into his net. Out of the stream from which Simon caught fish came the fisher of men, and he took him. With the cross, which catches all robbers, he caught that robber up into life. …

This site's exposition

they shall be a place to spread forth nets

on Ezekiel 47:10-11

Fishers will work the healed shore from En-gedi to En-eglaim, their catch as varied as the fish of the great sea, but the vision does not erase every salt place: the miry ground and the marshes are left to salt, unhealed. Fairbairn reads the exception as keeping the vision honest, abundance given without pretending every square foot of ground is remade the same way. A source of salt still has its own use even beside a river of healing.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The fishers shall stand upon it - On the above plan of interpretation these must mean - 1. The apostles of our Lord Jesus. 2. The preachers of the everlasting Gospel. See Mat 4:19. From En-gedi - At the southern extremity of the Dead Sea. Unto En-eglaim - At the northern extremity of the same. Their fish shall be according to their kinds - Every kind of fish, and the fish all excellent of their kinds.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

En-eglaim--En-gedi (meaning "fountain of the kid"), anciently, Hazazon-Tamar, now Ain-Jidy; west of the Dead Sea; David's place of refuge from Saul. En-eglaim means "fountain of two calves," on the confines of Moab, over against En-gedi, and near where Jordan enters the Dead Sea (Isa 15:8).

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְהָיָה֩and it will be

    vehayahH1961 →3559 times

  • עָמְד֨וּthey have stood

    yaamduH5975 →521 times

  • עָלָ֜יוat it

    ʾalavH5921 →5755 times

  • דַּוָּגִ֗יםfishermen

    davagimH1728 →

  • מֵעֵ֥יןfrom En

    meeinH5872 →

  • גֶּ֙דִי֙Gedi

    gediH5872 →

  • וְעַד־and to

    vead-H5704 →1261 times

  • עֵ֣יןEn-

    ʾeinH5882 →

  • עֶגְלַ֔יִםeglaim

    ʾeglayimH5882 →

  • מִשְׁט֥וֹחַa spreading place

    mishtoachH4894 →3 times

  • לַֽחֲרָמִ֖יםfor nets

    lacharamimH2764 →38 times

  • יִהְי֑וּthey will be

    yihyuH1961 →3559 times

  • לְמִינָה֙to kind its

    leminahH4327 →

  • תִּהְיֶ֣הit will be

    tihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • דְגָתָ֔םfish their

    degatamH1710 →15 times

  • כִּדְגַ֛תlike [the] fish of

    kidgatH1710 →15 times

  • הַיָּ֥םthe sea

    haiyamH3220 →396 times

  • הַגָּד֖וֹל<the> great

    hagadolH1419 →526 times

  • רַבָּ֥הmany

    rabahH7227 →454 times

  • מְאֹֽד׃very

    meodH3966 →300 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Matthew 4:19“Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”5 worksNumbers 34:6Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west.4 worksPsalms 104:25Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.4 worksIsaiah 19:8Then the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.4 worksJohn 21:3–11Simon Peter told them, “I am going fishing.” “We will go with you,” they said. So they went out and got into the boat, but caught nothing that night.3 worksLuke 5:4–10When Jesus had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”3 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Ezekiel 47:15This shall be the boundary of the land:3 worksMatthew 13:47–50Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea and caught all kinds of fish.3 worksEzekiel 48:28The southern border of Gad will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, then along the Brook of Egypt and out to the Great Sea.3 worksMark 1:17“Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”3 works2 Chronicles 20:2Then some men came and told Jehoshaphat, “A vast army is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the Sea; they are already in Hazazon-tamar” (that is, En-gedi).3 works1 Samuel 23:29And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En-gedi.3 worksEzekiel 26:5She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations,3 worksIsaiah 49:20Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’2 worksJoshua 15:62Beth-arabah, Middin, Secacah, Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En-gedi—six cities, along with their villages.2 worksIsaiah 49:12Behold, they will come from far away, from the north and from the west, and from the land of Aswan.”2 worksJoshua 23:4See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea.2 worksIsaiah 15:8For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab. Their wailing reaches Eglaim; it is heard in Beer-elim.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Matthew 4:19

    “Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”

    it leads to

    • Mark 1:17–18

      “Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”

    • John 12:26

      If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be as well. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

    • Matthew 16:24

      Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.

    • Luke 9:59

      Then He said to another man, “Follow Me.” The man replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

    • John 1:43

      The next day Jesus decided to set out for Galilee. Finding Philip, He told him, “Follow Me.”

  • Through

    Psalms 104:25

    Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 69:34

      Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them.

    • Psalms 95:4–5

      In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him.

    • Genesis 1:28

      God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature…

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Ephrem the Syrian, HYMNS ON THE NATIVITY 3; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.

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